Combined receipt and record book



UNITED STATES PATENT UEFICE.

HUGO LOEIVENBACH, OF MILI/VAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

COMBINED RECEIPT AND RECORD BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,412, dated February 18, 1890.

Application filed August 20, 1888. Serial No. 283,189. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGO LOEWENBACH, 0 Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of WVisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receipt and Record Books; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to receipt and record books of the kind usually known as manifold books, and it consists in a cover or support for the same and a holder for the carbonsheets used therewith, as will be fully set forth hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view showing one form of my improved cover open and with the carbon-holder down. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, but showing the carhon-holder raised. Figs. 3 and 4. are detail sectional views 011 the lines 3 3 and 4 at of Fig. 1, respectively; and Fig. 5 is an end elevation of another form of my device, showing also a book in place.

My present invention is in part an improvement on the device set forth in my application for a patent filed December 12, 1887, under Serial No. 257,608, and is designed to be used in connection with such manifold books and blocks as are set forth in said application, although not necessarily confined thereto.

In the form of my present device shown in Figs. 1 and 2 I have a cover consisting of two parts A B, united by a back a, while in the form shown in Fig. 5 I dispense with the left-hand partB and backa of the cover and leave merely the part A to form a suitable support. I11 both forms I provide this cover or support A with a pocket 0 for the reception of a tongue secured to the manifold book or block D in any ordinary manner. This pocket does not extend quite to the end or edge of the part A, and to the space thus left I hinge the inturned ends Z) Z) of the skeleton-frame carbon-holder E, (as by wire hinges or loops d, over which I stretch the leather or other lining e, or I may make the hinge wholly of the latter, if preferred,) and the extreme ends of the "carbon-holder E beyond the hinging-points are turned at a right angle, forming stops 0 c, which, when the book or block D is in place and ready for use, (or for transportation,) will project up and serve to prevent the same from slipping from place; and these stops not only serve to secure the book or block to the cover or support, as stated, and shown in Fig. 5, but serve a further purpose in supporting the carbon-holder in a raised position when a book or block is to be inserted or removed or a carbon-paper adjusted to the holder, as shown in Fig. 2.

F represents a sheet of ordinary carbonpaper such as is used for manifold books, and an end of this paper is folded around the outer or upper end (in the position shown in Fig. 2) of the holder E, and fastened thereto by the clamp G, which latter is made of spring metal, so as to hold the device very closely to the holder.

The use of my device will be obvious from the foregoing description of its construction; but one very useful feature lies in the clamp G, which may be grasped by the fingers and slid either way on the bar of the carbonholder to whichit is fastened, without removing or touching the carbon-sheet F, and hence the latter will be shifted slightly whenever it has become worn over the usual place of writing, and thus a carbon-sheet will last longer with this device and present fresher surfaces for use than if the same required to be removed when it was partly worn out, besides obviating the soiling of the fingers in transferring it.

My carbon-holder lies in place solely by gravity, being wholly free from springs or catches of any description.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A cover or support for manifold books or blocks, consisting of a suitable leaf provided with a tongue-p0cket of less width and length than that of the said leaf, and a skeletonframe carbon-holder hinged to said leaf and adapted to be held in place solely by gravity, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the cover orsupport A, with the skeleton-frame carbon-holder E, having inturned ends b l) hinged to said cover or support and bent at their extreme ends beyond the point-of hinging to form stops 0 c, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the cover or support A and skeleton-frame carbon-holder E, hav- 5 ing ends I) b hinged to said cover or support,

and right-angled stops 0 c, with the carbonsheet F, and sliding clamp G, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the cover A a B, IO pocket 0, book D, skeleton -frame carbonholder E I) Z) c c, carbon-sheet F, and sliding clamp G, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set myhand, at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wis 15 cousin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

HUGO LOEWENBACH.

Witnesses:

H. G. UNDERWooD, WILLIAM KLUG. 

